The Good Year

What happened when Joe Ahlman kicked the wheel of his spray rig and cursed, “You damn hungry beast, you! Why do you have to eat up all our profits?” Then he cries out to God for one “good year” with a crop so big he can’t harvest it all. This is the beginning of the mystery that takes Joe and Gracie through a year in the cherry business. Will there be a good year? Will they harvest it? These are the questions orchard owners have asked themselves since cherry orchards became popular on the limestone hills of
Door County.

Abstract:
What happened when Joe Ahlman kicked the wheel of his spray rig and cursed, “You damn hungry beast, you! Why do you have to eat up all our profits?” Then he cries out to God for one “good year” with a crop so big he can’t harvest it all. This is the beginning of the mystery that takes Joe and Gracie through a year in the cherry business. Will there be a good year? Will they harvest it? These are the questions orchard owners have asked themselves since cherry orchards became popular on the limestone hills of Door County.